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title: Peter lied out of fear in a moment, wept and turned back (Luke 22:62… — Olympiad practice: the hardest cases · tree and pragmatics
description: Peter lied out of fear in a moment, wept and turned back (Luke 22:62); Ananias and Sapphira planned their lie, and Sapphira repeated it when given a plain chance to tell the truth (Acts 5:8). Who acts: Peter, Ananias, Sapphira. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the r
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# Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 15

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Peter lied out of fear in a moment, wept and turned back (Luke 22:62); Ananias and Sapphira planned their lie, and Sapphira repeated it when given a plain chance to tell the truth (Acts 5:8).

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**Who acts:** Peter, Ananias, Sapphira · **What happens:** lie, weep, turn back, plan, repeat, give · **To what, where:** fear, lie, plain chance, truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, Ananias, Sapphira), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:15
# text = Peter lied out of fear in a moment, wept and turned back (Luke 22:62); Ananias and Sapphira planned their lie, and Sapphira repeated it when given a plain chance to tell the truth (Acts 5:8).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lied	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Luke	Luke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
16	22:62	22:62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	Ananias	Ananias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	Sapphira	Sapphira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	planned	plan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Sapphira	Sapphira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	31	mark	_	_
31	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
40	Acts	Acts	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	38	appos	_	_
41	5:8	5:8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	flat	_	_
42	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Peter |  |  | fear | moment |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out fear=Location |
| 2 | **weep** | past | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn back** | past | Peter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **plan** | past | Ananias and Sapphira | Ananias's lie |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic |
| 5 | **repeat** | past | Sapphira | lie |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 6 | **give** | participle | Sapphira *not said here* | a plain chance |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Sapphira *not said here* | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 8 | **lie** |  | Ananias |  |  |  |  |  | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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